A man arrested following a rooftop stand-off with police at a Wrexham gym has been jailed for a series of offences.

Strongman Shaun Lee Nicholas, 22, of Field View in Wrexham, was involved in a two and a half hour siege on the roof of the Powerzone Gym at Rivulet Road on Friday, after police went there to arrest him.

He came down from the roof after speaking to police and his solicitor Paul Abraham.

He appeared from custody at a special weekend sitting of Flintshire magistrates’ court at Mold, admitted a total of 11 offences and was jailed for six months and banned from driving for three years.

He did not face any charges arising from the circumstances of his arrest.

Police had been searching for him, and some offences of driving while disqualified and other motoring offences arose from instances where he drove away from officers.

He admitted driving while disqualified, no insurance and failing to stop after an incident on December 29 in Cefn Road, Wrexham, when he crashed into a tractor towing a tanker.

The tractor was turning right when the defendant overtook him, struck the tractor’s off side wheel and then crashed into a wall.

Nicholas and a female passenger fled from the scene, said prosecutor Nicola Wyn-Williams.

He admitted driving while disqualified, no insurance and failing to stop on January 29 when he made off from police in Wrexham Road, Rhostyllen.

The defendant admitted driving while disqualified and no insurance on February 10 in Holt Road where he had been identified as the driver of a car which pulled up onto a garage forecourt.

He admitted driving while disqualified, no insurance and failing to stop in Rivulet Road, Wrexham, on February 11.

Police knew he was wanted and followed him but he failed to stop for officers and they lost sight of him as he disappeared down a country lane at speed.

The defendant also admitted a criminal damage charge dating back to September 10 last year, when he and a female booked into the Premier Inn at Wrexham but it was found that £350 worth of damage had been caused to the room.

Paul Abraham, defending, said that his client knew he was going to jail.

He was very realistic and Mr Abraham said that it would be a waste of breath and an insult to the intelligence of the bench to suggest anything other than prison.

The most significant point in his favour was that he had admitted the offences.

Following his conviction at Telford, he had been wanted by police and there had been a series of incidents where he fled from the police officers, said Mr Abraham.

He had no one to blame but himself for the position he now found himself in.